The Weekly – #12

This week was full of excellent content – some of which you’ll find in this week’s links! Also super excited to make some great progress on a project that will be launched soon™. Until then… the weekly:

There are some excellent tips in here about why we need staging environments and how we can better utilise them. It’s especially interesting the product vs tech viewpoint of staging when it comes to production traffic… I’ll let you read that in detail.

HTTP/2 is often touted (including in my own talks) as being a drop in performance boost for serving web content. Naturally, the bigger your portfolio the more complex and technical your rollout of H2 may become. This post shares some insights from the BBC’s online team on how they rolled out HTTP/2 to all (most) of their online asset; netting between 2 and 34% performance boost along the way!

I was lucky to have worked with Ollie a number of years ago before he joined the team over at The Iconic. Almost four years on he’s shared some excellent wisdom that he’s gleamed as head of development! I also love the zero indexing =D